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Strategy with the Children.

Did you ever hit ON this way to get
a cluttered slttlng-room put TO rights
by tho very little folks who have
brought about in II chaos itselfp The
children think 1t great fun to overturn
chairs and hang rugs ON them for
tent doors; to strew the carpet with
playthings and clippings OF paper; to
drop books. picture cards, building
blocks. and dolly and her wardrobe,
Just where tho newest tack Of their
latest play left them; but II is not al
ways fun. either for you or them, to
get all this litter and clutter picked
up and cleared away.
OF late we have made little game
of such work by giving each child so
many breadths of the carpet, and all
that may be upon them. to put in
perfect order. There are five breadths
in our stting-room carpet, and at such
a corner" in the disorderly state of
the room, give two breadths-not con-
secutive lengths-to each of the two
older children, and the fifth breadth
to the little three-year-old, choosing
for her the strip of carpet that has
the least litter upon it. When little
children have keen interest in such
work. il is surprising how swiftly and
deity they will straighten rugs. fold
papers, pick up shrcds and litter, and
pack away playthings.
From end to end of their carpet
breadths our small people 60. setting
back chairs, making neat piles of the
scattered books and papers that clutter
the tables and shelves, winding the
struggling threads in mammals spool
and yarn baskets if they chance to DO Oh
their territory, winging the hearth. and
lounge pillows till even mammals sharp
eyes cannot see another travelling to
pick or one more paper to fold. She
can quietly 60 on with her sewing or
mending all through long afternoon
while her room is alternately being pu,
in and then out of order, only she must
be wise enough to plan that the former
comes last on the programme before
their supper or bed time hour comes.
The children are so quick to notice
and herald each others oversights and
any slovenlinoss in this play-work of
clearing sections of the room, that ]
have little need to call their attention
to any article or scrap left out of place.
Even the baby will trot across the room
to reprovingly point to wrinkled rug
or an overlooked toy on strip of her
little sisters territory, and gravely say,
'See there - If chair or table. with
its tnmbled heap of books or papers,
stand on too carpet breadths, the exact
ing little landholders require each 9th
er to put to rights just such a part as
on their division OF territory, and the
chair, basket or stand have seen the
little tots good-naturedly lug away to-
gether. - CtariSsa Patch. IN Good House.
keeping.
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Privileges

For The meeting of the Dallas Coun-
ty Pioneer Association which holds
two days, 10 and IS inst, at the city
park or pavilion. Tho undersigned
will sell the following privileges for
the occasion: Beer stand, lunch
stand, coffee, ice-tea and milk stand,
Iruit aud melon stand.
FINE VERY FINE,
613, 615 Elm, GA 6i5 Pacific avenue
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BnckIen,s Arnica salre.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum,
Fever Sores, letter Chapped Hands,
Chilbiains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
lions. and positively cures piles or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to givs
perfect satisfaction or me ney refunded
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
w. II. Howell Il Bro.
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For Sale.

Blacksmith shop in good location
with a good trade established. Reas-
OH for selling bad health. 1920 Elm
street, Dallas. Texas.
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Lace pins, collar and sleeve buttons,
ut j. p. Doherty Il Co.'S, 603 Maip St.
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Dissolution.

The firm OF Lewis Brothers & Co., of
Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, was dis
solved by mutual consent July 1, 1887. Mr..
w. g. Lewis retiring. The boot and shoe
business will be conducted by Il. ii. Lewis
general partner, and Geo. ii. Peabody spec
ial partner, under the name of Lewis Broth
blitles. Il. II. LEWIS,
w. G. LEWIS,
GEO. ii. PEABODY.
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Are you low spirited, listless, averse
to active exertion The cause is O
disordcd liver. Take Morris Cascar'
inc and it will effect a magical change
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,.I'EIE CITY.
Additional City News

Additional, City News
t,ity ucws to be found on End, 3rd
Nd 5th pages.
MOI AIRY always at his office.
w. l.. MCDONALD. 6Oi Main ST.
npKTISf e. o. ANpRuSS,
vinisOi' Relnhardt Building
ENTIST-Charles b. Lewis,
Post0tiice Building, Elm street.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

T,OR SALE-FULL BEDROOM SET OF
l. furniture; or will be boarded out in
good boai ding honse. Full particulars ap-
Div at No. 12l Ross Avenue.
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That great space between the una
bridgcd dictionary and the large cum
bers0n and costly cyclopedias is filled
by tho peoples Cyclopcdia" with adj
mirable fullness.
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WANTED. MAN WITH TEAM AND
w scraper, to do some work on Oak Gin.
Apply at HERALD Office.
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WANTED A. S Mo9I GIRL . m1 DO 81 GEN
Mrs. Huey. Cor. CONNIE zee and Ervay.
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Repairing watches and iewelry
speciality, at j. p. Doherty u Co.'S, 6OS
Main street.
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VXTANTED-TO EXCHANGE A GOOD
w mich COW for pony. Apply at 1867
Main street.
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.<xsu.~z-sz.. DENTISTS-Drs Joking d.
W. o. Jones, over China Hal
NYfYJlpNo Nos. 500 Main and s0iElm st.
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T,OR PENTHOUSE OF FIVE ROOMS
IL on Masten street. No. 10, near the Spice
Mills. Apply at No. 12l North HARDWOOD to
Eddie Mosely.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22

instead he grasped rattlesnake, which
bit him on the hand. He at once cut
around the wound with his knife until
it was enlarged then he nlled 1t with
gunpowder and ignited it. He recovered
and experienced no ill-effects from the
bite. | heard of another adventure with
a rattlesnake that is somewhat ludlcrous.
A man had been bathing IN a rlver, ana,
on emerging, of course completely naked,
sat down upon rattlesnake sleeping On
the bank Possibly he sat on the crea-
lures head or maybe the snake was
astounded at the sudden pressure; at any
rate the affrighted man leaped up and es-
capped injury. With the negroes, although
in my section the rattlesnake was rarely
seen, great many infallible cures ex-
listed. One was to cut the breast OF a
chicken just deep enough to make the
blood follow the knife, first plucklng on
the feathers then the cut was to be held
against the wound, and would, it was
declared, draw out all the poison.
Strange to say, the chicken, according to
report, rarely died from the operation.
Probably the only trustworthy remedy
is whiskey taken until complete intoxica-
ton results The blood must become alcO-
holized to neutralize the venom. The
cure is effected the instant the sufferer
gets drunk. AS long as the poison holds
the mastery the whiskey will have no
effect, but directly it yields intoxication
begins and with it recovery. This
remedy is not always etticacious.
A few years ago an exhibitor of snakes
in New York was bitten by rattle
snake. He at once drank copiously OF
whiskey, and had a thousand and one
remedies applied or suggested. He died,
however, in great agony. Physicians
say the venom causes the blood to coagu
late and afterward to putrefy. A man
bitten by rattlesnake may linger eight
to twelve days before death relieves his
sutferings. The cobra, of India, is the
deadlicst of snakes. In 1852, in London,
cobra at eight O'Clock in the morning;
he was corpse. The snake most fami-
liar to my Youthful days was the black
snake. The negroes declared he could
seize the end Of his tail in his mouth,
and thus, hoop-shaped, roll over the
ground with inconceivable rapidity.
| have never witnessed the performance
of this act, but | have seen these
snakes glide over the tops of hedges with
a swiftness that was astounding. |
have also seen negro catch one Of these
snakes by the tail and whirl it around his
head, then give a sharp jerk, as though
cracking whip, and the head of the
reptile would fly off There is an insect
of attenuated form, with transparent
wings-the dragon fly, The negro called
it a SNAKE DOCTOR and declared its
business was to succor and resuscitate
wounded snakes, for, according to plan
tation tradition, the tail of snake did
not die until shutdown, no matter if the
head was chopped off at the break Of
dav. JAS G.. PLUhMER.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22

the cases of drunkenness of the night
before. Queer hotels are the Western
ones. Here in Calgary the gentlemen
are provided with trough and water by
the pail in the toilet-room of the principal
hotel, and in Winnepeg the best house
has its dining-room where other hotels
have their cellars, eight or ten feet under
the ground. At this Sanitarium, in Bauff,
the proprietor has hung canaries in cages
in the hall between the bedrooms, and at
daybreak the birds sing so shrilly that
sleep is banished from the hotel.
The oddities of life at the Springs con-
tinue at the baths. The principal bath
house is of logs-a big slab-building-
all cut up into double rooms, one in each
instance for the bath-tub and one for the
cot whereon one rests and is rubbed to a
high state of polish. Very aptly long
and timber mountaineer, graduated at a
bound from cutting timber to tending
the bath, is the rubber" for the male
patients. Each bath-tub is filled with
water registering 110o to 1909 Fahren-
heit, and when patient feels his way at
first, with one toe or finger, it seems in
credible to imagine that he will, if he
tries, gradually work his whole body
into the steaming pool. In another log
hut are clgar-case candy-counter and
BARRIERS chair-the single store of Sui
phur Mountain. Oh it will not be the
same place at all when the grand hotel is
opened and there are marble floors
and French walters, and regular
course" dinners take the places of these
Rocky Mountain eccentricities.
Are you going to the ball might and
will you take me-" were the first words
addressed to me outside of the course of
the business of arranging for board at
the Sanitarium. The questioner was a
buxom Englishwoman, the wife of
resident, who stood by and waited for
my answer with as much interest, appa-
rentlv, as she who asked it possessed
Strange as the question sounded. it was a
natural one. There was to be ball
twenty-five miles away on the railroad.
There were many women and few men
in Bautf, and here came an extra and I'M
expected man into the presence of one
of these women who suspected that if
she did not secure him for herself some
other woman, less timid, would prove
more fortunate. l am sorry did not 90
to the ball Two or three wagon loads
of dancers went from the park, attended
by the soldiers, in yellow-striped breeches
and yelow-s sided capsset jauntily on
one ear. Were many people tipsy?"
some one asked one of these prairie po-
licemen next day. Yes" he replied,
but not too tipsy."
But if things are crude there, the park
and all its natural attributes are none
the less charming. Cascade Mountain
lifts its granite snow-capped mass 5000
feet above you, and on its steep side the
melting snow reaches your level in
bounds of which one is leap of 900
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22

paris naturaIibus without fee or rubbing
by backwoodsman. At some little dis
lance from the hotels, by carriage or
donkey ride up the valley are other natural
wonders of great beauty-Devils lake,
from which Devils creek leaps torrent
| like into the Bow and Ghost river, an
other exquisitely pretty mountain stream.
The Canadian government is spending
money with wise liberality in this beau
tiful preserve. Level, broad roads are
going forward up and around the noun
tain sides, superb iron bridges are being
laid across the streams, the picturesque
and lazy soldiers of the Northwest
police are established there in numbers
sufficient to preserve order and enforce
law; and before winter-when the park
is just as attractive as in SUMMERTIME
place will seem pillar of civilization
instead of an outpost of the wilderness.
A feature that will be conspicuous there,
and from which we Americans might
borrow to advantage, is the absence of
fees and expense to those who visit the
park. Few Americans, comparatively,
have money to spare in such abundance
as is needed to see the wonders of our
Yellowstone Park. The very books that
are issued to tempt us to 60 there
alright us with their lists of charges,
mounting far beyond a hundred dollars
for mere costs of sightseeing. Here in
Bautf Park there is nothing of the sort
You are charged exactly as at Long
Branch or Minnetonka. If you ride you
must hire teams, of course, and if you
board you must pay the hotel bills, but
beyond the moderate hotel charges and
the quarters put out for the daily baths,
there is no absolute need to spend
penny. JULIAN RALPH
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22

feet downward through the air. Tunnel
Hill, 900 feet high, is easily ascendable
and full of profit in grand scenery to
those who conquer it. Sulphur Mountain,
where the springs are, is skirted by a
substantial government road, from every
turn of which views exquisite or inn
pressive are commanded. Between these
mountains is the narrow valley OF the
green and racing Bow river which, at
one beautyspot, is joined by the tiny
ripping spray, and at another is wldened
into a glorious lake, whose surface re-
peats the altitudinous scenery of the
sky and mountain peaks. 1t is notable
experience to find oneself there after
only a four-days' journey from New
York, within forty miles of the highest
part of the Rockies, at an elevation of 5000
feet above Underwater, close to the border
between Alberta and British Columbia,
and in an atmosphere not only always
cool but where daylight lasts until ten
o'clock at night-in fact. where every
night the sunset fingers family in the
west until within an hour or two of the
time for daybreak. And such a day
break! AS the golden fame of morning
creeps downward from the mountain
tops that are the first to catch its light,
the snow fields of the peaks glow with
the colors of mother-of -pearl touched
here and there with the lustre of tinsel
and the warmth of glowing Goals. Tiny
ew-clouds tear themselves from the
tree-tops, and floating off dry up and
disappear, and finally the SUMS unob-
structed rays fill the valleys with the
full glory of day.
Here is hearty invitation for the sports
man quite as great as for the invalid:
From the water one may take pike and
pickerel, and from the air geese, duck,
prairie fowl and partridges-not as one
hunts for them with occasional reward in
the East, but in plentitude for all who
seek them. In the mountains the hunter
finds mountain sheep and antelope,
bears, deer and wolves. For the gentler
idler there are sail and row-boats, and,
for the lover of awesome nature, queer
caves, in one of which, after steep de-
scent by ladder, is deep pond of hot
sulphur water, where one may battle in
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22
CONTRARY CUPID.
CHAs. NJ. SNYDER.

You can't depend on evidence that emanates
from Cupid.
For lovers are in every sense exceptionally
stupid.
A maiden may the knowledge gain that sets
her heart a-tremble,
And yet her face is all dsdain, or SO she
would dissemble.
She then assumes reticence that shrinks at
all advances,
AS if she feared the eloquence that speaks in
subtle glances.
As if she looked upon embrace as liberty
alarming,
And didn't think yielding grace addition
ally charming.
O., when the dear seems most afraid of these
advances tender,
Then is the time the cunning maid is wait
ing to surrender.
For every obstacle she knows. gives ardor
to pursuing;
ing
She doesn't care to show her heart is all
a-thrill with pleasure,
And so she puts her subtlest art in hesitating
leisure.
Although the tremor of her lips all that you
seek confesses,
Whereat in dewy nectrous sips await the
sweet caresses;
Though at the heaving of her breast the sweet
conviction rushes.
And while her dropping lids attest-sweet
signs and fervid bushes;
Still all such blissful evidence serves but to
startle lovers
For one must bid adieu to sense who aught
in love discovers.
IT'S impulse only knows the way unto your
satisfaction,
For reason simply prompts delay and chills
the heart from action.
Then presently-you never know just how
your trouble ended,
The drifting streams together flow into
rapture blended.
For there's pair of ruby lips that yield
you draughts of sweetness,
An unison of thrilling sips in wonderful
completeness.
Then az the maid seems nothing 10th you're
sure to pause and wonder,
Just how it was, so blindly, both could ever
dwell asunder.
For you can't depend on evidence that ema-
mates from Cupid
Since lovers are in every sense exceptionally
stupid.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22
NO MORE ALARMS.
How the Ameer Punished an Enterprise
ing Young Man.

ing 1OunS MAN.
The H0meacard -NaH says: Some
strange stories have been told of the way
in which Abdur Rahman lords it over his
people. There is humor in his way of
playing the part of lord absolute which
can best be appreciated at a distance, as
story which has just reached us will
show. Not long ago, we are told, the
Ameer was sitting in durbar discussing
public affairs. The Home Department
had gone through their work. Orders
had been issued to release certain
persons from the SORROWS Of existence,
when the durbar suddenly dashed
into greater things. and began to talk
about the English and the Russians. \
man who had lately been introduced at
court, and was not we'll acquainted with
his sovereign's ways, remarked, Lord Of
the EARTH let people say what they like,
but this humble one has been scanning
the political horizon with far-rcachinr
eyes and the Russians are coming The
lord of the earth smiled a sweet smile
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22
THE RULING PASSION.

A Postoffice Lacks Proper Assortment
of Colors in Stamps.
She had never mailed letter before, and
so she approached the stamp clerks window
with the same air that she would enter dry
goods store.
II would like to look at some stamps,
please" she said.
What denomination do you want?"
asked the clerk.
Denomination This was remarked in
surprise. She hadn't supposed that stamps
belonged to any church at all.
EYES," replied the clerk, who saw no
necessity for holding a lengthy palaver over
the sale of a stamp, especially when other
people were waiting. SIS it for letter or a
newspaper"
20, want to send letter to my Uncle
John; he's just moved to-
Then you need two-cent stamp" inter
rupted the clerk, offering her one of that
value.
II hardly like that color" she observed,
holding the brick-tinted stamp up to the
light and surveying it critically.
The clerk looked at her in astonishment
In his long experience in the postal business
iected TO the color of the stamps.
THAT is twocent stamp, madam. Please
stand aside and let the gentleman behind you
come up"
Haven't you got them in any other
color| she asked, wholly oblivious of the
gentleman behind"
The clerk began to act cross
II never did like that shade of red," she
added.
There is only one color" he replied,
CURLY.
THAT is strange" she mused" I'D think
you'd keep them in different shades, so that
there'd be some choice"
The clerk said nothing, but he kept getting
crosser every minute, and murmurs of dis
appreciation began to rise from the ever
frightening line of people who would have
been thankful to get their stamps without
criticising their hue.
"You are sure you have none in a brighter
red, or even in different color-Nile green,
or seal brown, or jubilee blue, for instance?"
"You can put two one-cent stamps on
your letter if you like" said the clerk, who
began to see that the customer could not be
frowned away from the window.
Let me see them, please
Two blue stamps were solemnly handed
to her, and the crowd began to hope that
at last she was suited.
'.Ah, that will do" she said, as she took
up the one-cent stamps and eyed them as if
they were samples of dress goods II like
that shade better. I'll take only one, if you
please"
And she handed the other back to the
clerk, who took it mechanically. but man
aged to add:
Eft it's for letter you'll need two. These
are one-cent stamps and letter postage is two
cents per ounce"
20, / don't want to put two stamps on nv
letter. she said; II don't think they would
look WE'LL"
ut requires two cents to carry letter,
madam, and you must either put two
cent stamp on or two ones. 1t won't 20
without And / must ask you to please
hurry, for you are keeping great many
people away from the window"
That's singular. / don't like the look of
two together You are sure the other doesn't
come IN seal Thrown, or -"
MOP thundered the clerk, getting very
red in the face.
."Then I'll have to see if can suit myself
elsewhere"
And she departed.
The clerk replaced bis despised red and
blue stamps, nopped his perspiring brow,
and began to make mp for lost time
VIM. Fl. SfvITER.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22

A rich Spectator in Paris, of "shady" rep
utation, being very anxious to possess some
decoration, boldly asked the Emperor Dom
Pedro to bestow one upon him, as he had
already done to NJ. de Lesseps and Others.
NO. said the old monarch, ~ can't do it.
could stand that. But they would also think
you knave, and cannot have any person
of such reputation in my order b
change.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22
HE WAS RIGHT FOR ONCE.

1--WE are all pore creatures" remarked Mr..
Fangle.
John replied his wife, why don't you
learn to pronounce that word correctly? 1t
is poor, not PORE
mo, am right this time, my dear; Twas
thinking of the perspiration caused by the
warm weather"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22

some of the old cour-
tiers who knew that
smile also smiled
and, turning upon him
with 1.-The far-reach-
IN z e We :, 5 a i d :
bright jewel of our
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22
QUIPs.
QUIPS.
A fee-male-A lawyer.

a 1ee-maIe-A lawyer.
Does overwork kill?" inquiries an es-
teemed contemporary. VOL, you might
try it.
You have seen tops spin, Of course, but
have you ever seen clothespin2
The daughter of Enoch was $50 years of
age when she married. There would be fewer
old maids if such longevity were more gen
orally practiced. o.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-22
A NATIONAL PARK.
SOME SIGHTS SEEN IN THE CANA
DIAN PLEASURE GROUND,

steaming Water. Impregnated with Sui
phur, Iron and Medicinal Salts, Cuisines
up Everywhere-The Bow River Pass of
the Rockies the Great Natural Gate.